Lesser Known & Unknown Fashion Models - Vintage

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Evelyn "Raven" Mcbride
A popular 1940s American model

Vintage Print Scan

1967 × 2400
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Two Unknowns
photographers unknown

'Jun 9th 1953'

1676 × 2012

'Jul 26th 1960'

2043 × 2818

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Vintage Print Scan
Unknown model

2193 × 2705

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Ruth Neumann-Derujinsky aka Princess Derujinsky

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Anne Gunning
Model/Actress

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Unknown
Dated 5-10-58

4600 × 5658 @ 600ppi (236.22ppc)

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Isobel Ann Benn was born on April 15 1929 in Toronto, where her father worked for an insurance company. After he lost his job in the Depression, the family, which included Isobel’s elder brother and sister, had to leave their house for a rented flat above a fish shop.

Blessed with extraordinary good looks, as well as a steely determination, Liz began modelling work while still a schoolgirl in order to help support her struggling family. At the age of 14 she was offered a starring role in the film National Velvet, based on Enid Bagnold’s novel. She turned it down, reasoning that she would make more money modelling. The part went instead to Elizabeth Taylor.

Liz was soon making enough money to buy her parents a house and a car, but her ambition did not end there. Aged 18 she booked herself on a flight to New York, where she was immediately signed up by Eileen and Gerard Ford, who had started the Ford Modelling Agency in 1946. For her first assignment, Liz was sent to the photographer Richard Avedon, who would become a lifelong friend. Soon she was appearing on multiple covers of the most famous magazines of the day, including Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

When she 19 Liz Benn was sent on a fashion shoot in Jamaica with another leading model of the day, Mary Jane Russell. When news of their impending arrival reached John Pringle, a former equerry to the Duke of Windsor, he decided to try his luck and went to the airport to meet them. On discovering that Mary Jane was married, he concentrated his attention on Liz Benn, and they decided to marry within two weeks — despite the fact that she was already engaged to a man in Canada.

Pringle’s grandfather, who had begun his adult life as a doctor in Scotland, had eventually amassed 100,000 acres of Jamaica’s plantations; but the collapse of sugar prices, and Pringle’s father’s weakness for the casino, had caused the family’s money to disappear. John and Liz began their married life in New York, where she continued with her modelling career while he opened a fashionable menswear shop. Three years later they returned to Jamaica, where they began developing Round Hill, near Montego Bay.

It was an innovative project: the main hotel building was to be surrounded by some 25 cottages which were sold to individual shareholders, thus raising the money for their construction.
Noël Coward bought the first one, and was soon followed by Adele Astaire. The cottages were made available for rent when the shareholders were not using them, a successful model later adopted by the Aga Khan when he developed another famous resort, the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia.
Under the aegis of John and Liz Pringle, Round Hill became a destination of choice for the biggest celebrities of the 1950s, many of whom became personal friends. The guest list included names such as Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Alfred Hitchcock, Errol Flynn, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, John and Jackie Kennedy and Princess Margaret.
The Pringles made their home in one of the cottages, and were on call 24 hours a day. On one occasion John Pringle had to deal with a terrified French aristocrat who had arrived to spend a week at Round Hill with his mistress, only to discover that his brother-in-law was ensconced in the next-door cottage. When Rex Harrison falsely accused the beach manager of stealing a signet ring, John Pringle told the actor to leave at once, and rang the newspapers with the story.
Over all this Liz Pringle presided with beauty and grace. She also did her best to promote Round Hill and the island by undertaking modelling shoots in Jamaica. But it was relentless work, and in 1961 — after John had been told by his doctors to take a rest cure in Switzerland — they sold the business to the shareholders. The next year he was invited to become Jamaica’s first director of tourism and they went to live in Kingston, where Liz became much involved with cultural projects and charities.
In 1967 the couple moved to London, where John Pringle had been invited to be chairman of the advertising agency Doyle Dane & Bernbach. He later became a television producer.
In the early Seventies John and Liz Pringle divorced, but they remained close until his death in 2006. Liz Pringle did occasional work as an interior designer and enjoyed entertaining her wide circle of friends.
She is survived by their daughter, Shawn. (Source The Telegraph)

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Swimsuit Competition, Paris, 1949:

Check out these ruffles! Don't get me started on the sun-bursting lady-parts. These Parisian girls certainly knew how to push boundaries when they showcased the latest swimsuit trends way back in 1949. One can see Rihanna in the suit on the far right.

Thx to the OP!